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R. A. WOOLDRI'DGE 8a G. W. FRASURE.

DOOR THRESHOLD AND WEATHER STRIP.

No. 362,693. Patented May 10, 1887.

' @5U mi* @Hof ncvlJ Unirse STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ROBERT A. -WOOLDRIDGE AND GEORGE XV. FRASURE, OF EAST LYNNE, MO.

DOOR=THRESHOLD AND WATHER-STRIP.

SPECEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,693, dated May 10, 1887.

(No model.)

L70 @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT A. XVOOL- DRIDGE and GEORGE W. FRAsURE, natural born citizens of the United States, residing at East Lynne, in the county of Cass and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Thresholds and \Veather-Strips; and we do hereby declare ,the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in metallic or rubber weatherstrips for the thresholds of doors ofdwellin g-houses and other structures, and has for its object the prevention of the passage of water under the doors during rainstorms or from other causes.

To this end the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made, and which fully illustrate our invention, Figure l shows a door open and the weather-strip covering the channel in the threshold. Fig. 2 shows the door closed and the weather-strip raised to prevent passage of water thereunder. Fig. Sis adetached vlew of the weather-strip, and Fig. 4 is a sectional View.

.A represents the framework of a doorway, constructed in the usual manner, the inner sides being provided with the strips or cleats a, extending from the top to the bottom, against which the door B, hung upon hinges b, closes.

C is a wooden or metallic sill or threshold, having a narrow channel or groove, c, cut longitudinally therein, within which is fitted a right-angled metallic, rubber, or other suitable weather-strip, D, having piutles d at each end, and loosely pivoted or resting in recesses d', formed in the ends ofthe groove or channel at each side of the doorway, said strip having also a vertical projection or trip, E, upon its upper side at one end, and against which a downwardly-projecting plate, E', se cured upon the lower left-hand corner of the door B, strikes in closing the door, which trips and automatically operates the weatherstrip D. The corner of the door is slightly rabbeted or cut away at a right angle to allow the trip to pass and meet the plate E. The weather strip lies normally Vflush with the sill or threshold when the door is open, as the door striking against itturns it down to cover the channel and rises to cover the space below the door and between it and the threshold when the door is closed. Intersecting laterally with the groove or channel in the threshold are a series of oriiices, F, which carry off or convey outside all water which may have accumulated in the groove. The weather-strip D, when closed against the inside of the door, forms a perfect protection from rain for theinside of the dwelling, while when in its normal position-that is, when the door is open-it lies so fiat or flush with the sill as to preclude any possibility of a person tripping over it when passing through the doorway. An opening or hollow, c, in the sill is provided to receive the trip E when the door is closed and the plate E forces the trip down.

1n the foregoing description it will be obvious that the construction of our device is simple and its operation effective and expeditious.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim therein as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the door havinga lower corner rabbeted or out away at a right angle, said corner being covered by a metallic plate secured to the door, whereby the trip is prevented from cutting into the wood of said door and at the same timerenderedoperative, of the plate E', a sill having a longitudinal channel, c, provided at its ends with recesses d d, a right-angled weather-strip, D, having its pintles d d resting in recesses at the ends of the channel, and said trip engaging with the metallic door-plate, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the sill and threshold C, provided with the longitudinal channel c, having cud recesses, d d, and the lateral discharge-openings F, the weather-strip D, having the trip E, engaging with a metallic IOO plate covering a right-angled rabbet in the In testimony whereof we afx our signalower edge of the door, said weather-strip bei tures in presence of two Witnesses.

ing provided with lthe pintles d d, resting in ROBT. 'A. WOOLDRIDGE. the recesses of the sill, and the door B, rabbeted GEORGE W. FRASURE.

5 at one of its lower corners to allow the trip to Vt-nesses:

pass and engage with the metallic plate E', all WILLIE MILLER,

substantiall y as and for the purposes described. M. STONE. 

